James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.

Agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him. James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market.

Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his partner, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

Casino Royale is a major step-up from the flamboyant Die Another Day. Pierce Brosnan has been replaced by a young-ish Daniel Craig, there is no Q, no campy gadgets, no silly naked women silhouettes in the opening credits, no world-dominating super-colossus villains, no Miss Funnyfanny or whatever , and no silly one-liners after killing bad guys.

Basically everything that can date Bond film very quickly is gone. But the one-thing that bugs me about action movies, particularly the Bond franchise, is that they are, most of the time, childish male fantasies with an indestructible hero who has fun shooting up the place and beds beautiful women.

I would like something new for a change but Casino Royale does have Bond get hurt and go through more pain than he has previously.

Or the shortest actor to play him so far? I would have preferred that composer David Arnold went too. Unfortunately, as good as this fresh start to the franchise was, all of the goodwill that director Martin Campbell earned was completely undone by the follow-up Quantum of Solace, which is not only the worst Bond film so far, but one of the worst action films, and one of the worst films overall, that I have ever seen.

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Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Armed with a license to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as , and must defeat a private banker to terrorists in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro, but things are not what they seem.

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